title=[[Russian Orthodox Exarchate in Western Europe|Archbishop of the Russian Orthodox Exarchate in Western Europe]]|

title=[[Russian Orthodox Exarchate in Western Europe|Archbishop of the Russian Orthodox Exarchate in Western Europe]]|

years=1931-1945|

years=1931-1945|

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after=[[Vladimir (Tikhonitsky) of Western Europe|Vladimir]]}}

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after=[[Vladimir (Tikhonitsky) of Paris|Vladimir]]}}

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Metropolitan Eulogius (Georgievsky) of Paris (also rendered Evlogy, Euloge, and Eulogios) was a bishop of the Russian Orthodox diaspora during the tragic transition brought upon by the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.

Metropolitan Eulogius was appointed by Patriarch Tikhon in 1921 as the representative of the Patriarchate of Moscow in Western Europe. He sat in with the bishops of Karlovtsy Synod at the time.

In 1927, Eulogius broke with the Karlovtsy Synod and was subsequently condemned by them, splitting the Russian emigrant community in Western Europe. But Metropolitan Eulogius’s feeling was that because he was appointed by the Moscow Patriarch to his position, he and his flock were not in the same situation as the refugees of the Karlovtsy Synod.

In 1930, after taking part in a prayer service in London in supplication for Christians suffering under the Soviets, Eulogius was removed from office by Metr. Sergius (Stragorodsky), then locum tenens of the Patriarchate of Moscow and replaced. Most of Eulogius’s parishes remained loyal to him, as they were generally against the Soviet government. Eulogius then petitioned Ecumenical Patriarch Photius II to be received under his canonical care. He and his community were received in 1931, as an exarchate of the Ecumenical Patriarchate.

About a year before his death on August 8, 1946, Metropolitan Eulogius returned with all his parishes to the Russian Orthodox Church and again became an exarch of the Moscow patriarchate. However, after his death, Metropolitan Seraphim (Loukianov) was appointed the new exarch by the Moscow Patriarchate. A large number of parishes, contesting Archbishop Seraphim, again broke from the mother Church. These parishes have become the current exarchate of the Russian parishes in Western Europe of the Patriarchate of Constantinople.